pete

Don't hold your breath!

Funny how every other clubs supporters scream for Rangers blood when we supposedly stray from the straight path but scream innocence when they are in the same or worse position. Don't forget your club and supporters are still shouting for titles to be removed from us. Rangers were being raped by a criminal gang and your claty little club supporters and chairman were one of the leaders in the fight to have us demoted out of the SPL. Sporting integrity was the call. Where was\is the sporting integrity from your club leaders who have not even bothered to contact Rangers to apologise for the assaults on our players. Should your club represent Scotland in Europe. No! Your fans cannot be trusted to behave properly and your club find it okay for them to enter the field of play in the name of over exuberance. Your club should also be banned from next seasons cup. After all a player misses the next game when he commits a foul.

It has also been stated on social media it was planned well in advance which means it was premeditated and not over exuberance. Your own supporters are seemingly saying a pitch invasion was planned no matter who won the cup.

He wasn't defending himself. The boy was already on the ground disorientated from a few punches from someone else. He ran up and cowardly kicked him on the head and ran quickly back in the direction of the stand. Even the most staunch could not claim self defence in this case. We also have to be honest with ourselves.

I do have to say though after seeing the latest footage with the guy kicking the young Hibs supporter on the head when he was lying on the ground deserves to be arrested he is totally out of order and in no way can I condone that.

In 1993 my family came over on Holiday to visit me in Hengelo in the Netherlands. Being Football fanatics, taking my brother-in-law and his young son to a football game was a natural thing to do. FC Twente the local professional football club were playing against Feynoord in one of the last games FC Twente played at the Diekman Stadium before moving to the Grolsch Veste. The Diekman was an old stadium with old so called cowsheds and temporary seating. In those days there were fences all round the field. All of a sudden the Feyenoord supporters to our right started climbing the fences and on to the field. First it was a drizzle but quickly the numbers grew to a large crowd. They then headed to the stand I was sitting in and started climbing the fence into our stand. More and more FC Twente supporters started running away from the seating nearest the fence. I turned to my brother-in-law and said “Come on let's get out of here” Thankfully the person next to me said you can better stay in your seat and not become part of the large running crowd that had built up in the footpath beneath us. Just at that moment the Riot police came marching in. The Dutch police don't muck about in these circumstances they did not care who they hit with their batons they swung at anyone to get them out of their way. They just wanted the area cleared so they could get through to the Feynoord supporters. My neighbour had given me sound advice to stay seated. The relief when the police had positioned themselves between the Feynoord supporters and myself and family was great. They pushed them back until they had a few remaining that could not get back over the fence in time not to be arrested. On Saturday the Rangers supporters never got that police barricade. There was no fence for possible boozed up hooligans to climb The supporters in the stand had to face the oncoming onslaught of aggressive Hibs supporters without any protection. I know from my experience the fear they must have had with many sitting with their kids or grandchildren. I can also imagine their relief when a band of a few hundred Rangers supporters broke the barriers to defend the onslaught of snarling taunting Hibs hooligans. Today in the newspapers photographs were printed in which it looked like the Police were looking for the Rangers supporters who were acting in self=defence to defend the Rangers Stands where woman and Children were sitting in fear. Yes the police should be looking for these people. Not to arrest them but to thank them for doing their job. I take my hat off to the people who formed a front line and challenged the real aggressors. If the Hibs supporters had stayed in their seats there would have been no need for Rangers supporters to defend themselves. It is the supporters attacking Rangers players that the police should be looking for. They are the real criminals.

If he doesn't sign it has been the biggest con since operation Tango

You underestimate this mob they don't give a shit about the rest of the world. They are cocooned in their own web and think they are untouchable. They will ride out the storm by bobbing and weaving and at the end of the day little will have changed except there will be a few A4 papers typed out and put in a plastic cover ending up in a filing cabinet. A few wrists will be slapped and life will go on.

Taken from FF

Lose the prize money. Lose the Euro spot to St Johnstone and a 2yr SC ban.

Two days Later! Now resign from the SFA Mr Petrie!

My memory is obviously going.

Was Whittaker not LB or am I getting mixed up.

I would take Hutton back and move Tavernier to a more advanced role. Maybe AV will let him go on the cheap.

Add a bit of penetration to your game and you will go far. I doubt you will get many games for Arsenal if you just keep passing sideways.

Frankie put it on a Joey Barton thread.

I said that last week I thought it was a done deal. Management did not want to rock the boat before the SC.

He has just tweeted the words to penny arcade seemingly. SSN

I don't think discussing your sexual preferences falls under Rangers chat. I am sure it could be discussed in the Bluenose lounge though.

That would clarify the words of his tweet about being homeless.

Somebody obviously thought different to me.

As it is not a transfer rumour I think it deserves it's own thread to discuss properly without clogging up the rumour thread. It is good it is noted in there as well though.

Not that difficult to guess I think Ian. Start with the out of contract players.

A smart move if they want to fight it they will have to take the stand I would imagine.

With the speed the Police reacted one has to ask: How prepared are they in the event of a terrorist attack. Might sound far fetched but high profile sporting events are one of their targets. If they react as slow as Saturday then there will be a hell of a body count. As it also seems easy to get flares into the ground I doubt explosives and a shortened Kalashnikov would not be much harder.